Embark on a comprehensive journey into the world of Scilab, a powerful open-source software for scientific computing and data visualization. This meticulously crafted guide will equip you with the essential knowledge and skills to harness Scilab's capabilities for a wide range of computational tasks.

This book is primarily intended for graduate, and postgraduate students especially scholars working in any domain of computation techniques.   In the author's opinion, the finest software package for solving engineering problems is MATLAB, which is capable of conducting advanced mathematical and engineering computations whose versatility has transformed the personal computer industry.

This book is intended to teach the student/reader how to use MATLAB through the use of practical examples. MATLAB is a software package that needs to be purchased for use.

This is one of the reasons why Scilab exists. Scilab is currently being developed for programmers who wish to totally migrate their work to an open-source platform but are willing to amend their MATLAB files if necessary.

This document contains Scilab commands, functions, and statements that are executable. The author makes no claim to content or style originality but has taken care to present the material clearly and sequentially with detailed discussion.

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